BACKGROUND The reason for this study was the low interest that high school students, particularly females, show for the subject of mechanical engineering (ME). We assumed that this problem was partly due to: (a) lack of understanding of the tasks involved in ME, and (b) a distorted and negative perception of the professional environment and working conditions. METHOD To assess these two assum...

Synchs-The tmportance of gender and race as critical vartables in cnmmal ~ustxe system processmg IS htghhghted ut thts article These processes influence women and minority ractai groups as vtctims and as offenders. The article addresses the situatton tn the Ututed States between 1970 and 1985 prtmarily, but the focus on gender and race has appbcatton to many other countries Foliowtng a bnef hts...

The main part of our paper presents an analysis of women’s participation in the entrepreneurial process in the earliest stage – we were interested in gender differences with regard to the ability to create or start a new business. Our research is based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project. The results of this analysis revealed that there are evident differences between male and ...

Women continue to be under-represented in the sciences, with their representation declining at each progressive academic level. These differences persist despite long-running policies to ameliorate gender inequity. We compared gender differences in exposure and visibility at an evolutionary biology conference for attendees at two different academic levels: student and post-PhD academic. Despite...

Since antiquity, people in several East Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, have believed that a person is destined to possess specific characteristics according to the sign of the zodiac under which he or she was born. South Koreans, in particular, have traditionally considered that the year of the Horse bears inauspicious implications for the birth of daughters. Using mont...

There has always been a claim that: ”boys are good at counting, and girls are good at reading”. Analysis of the data on the gender differences in mathematics achievement up to the present indicates that females are not consistently under-performing relative to males. Guiso, Monte, Sapienza and Singales (2008) analyzed data for 40 different countries and showed that culture explains most of the ...

In this paper, we evaluate relationships between mid-life work experiences and the realization of preferences for full-time employment, part-time employment, and complete retirement at age 63-64. Using rich data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we demonstrate that the likelihood of achieving one's preferred employment status is related to earlier work experiences including employment stab...

We performed a community based cohort study in rural Malawi and documented a twofold mortality risk among 1-2 year old boys compared to girls of the same age. Because of its potential implications for child survival programmes, further studies should investigate whether sex differences in childhood mortality are more widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa.